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Originally Posted by crich70
It wouldn't surprise me if either J.K. Rowling influenced the game or the game influenced her if even on a sub conscience level.
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It could be that Battle Chess influenced Rowling; it's not possible for Tales of the Sword Coast to have done that, as that game was released after the first Harry Potter book.
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I remember there was an episode of the Dick Van Dyke show that covered that theme. Laura wrote a children's story and the potential publisher rejected it because it was almost word for word a re-writing of an already published children's book. Apparently she had either read it as a child or had it read to her and her sub conscious mind filtered out that fact and just reminded her of the story itself.
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Could be... there was a similar problem at the coronation of the new Dutch King. A story was written for that event, but it seemed to have been based on a very old, very well known melody.
The composer caught a lot of flack for that ("You were very handsomely paid to compose a song, not to reuse an old melody"), but he insisted he wrote the piece himself, and that any similarities were coincidental.